Millers Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
Millers Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-hammer-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Millers Farmhouse, Grove Lane, Chigwell, IG7 6JQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 457 933
- Coordinates
- 51.6199, 0.10373
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Millers Farmhouse is a late 17th-century house that was altered in the early 19th century. It is timber-framed and has weatherboard cladding, covered by a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The house is composed of three bays aligned approximately east-west, facing south, with a central entrance stair hall and two chimney stacks in the rear wall. A single-storey lean-to extension is located at the eastern end, and a further single-storey lean-to extension of red brick with a tiled roof is situated behind the western bay, dating to the 18th century. A small, single-storey lean-to extension in the northeast angle is a 20th-century addition, weatherboarded with a corrugated iron roof.
The house is two storeys high with attics. The main entrance features a six-panel flush door, with the top two panels glazed, set within a simple doorcase with fluted jambs and a shallow hood, dating to the early 19th century. There are two double-hung sash windows of 16 lights, also from the early 19th century, along with two 20th-century casement windows and a plain boarded door. The first floor has three similar sash windows. Internal framing is partially exposed. The transverse beams are plain chamfered with lambs' tongue stops; some joists are exposed while others are plastered to the soffits. Jowled posts are present, along with two sets of wallplates. The house was originally a single-storey building with attics, and the walls were raised approximately one metre in the late 17th century. The roof has a butt-purlin design.
A staircase leading from the ground floor to the attic features a pine rail and square balusters, dating to the early 19th century. An unusual shutter, sliding sideways into the wall thickness, is found in the east ground floor room, also dating to the early 19th century. A bread oven at the northwest corner has been partly demolished, but the door remains. The rear wall is roughcast rendered. Internal to the building, this includes exposed framing, transverse beams with lambs tongue stops, exposed joists, plastered soffits to some joists, and jowled posts.
Local climate
Millers Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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